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Accounts related to the lime business. The Shepherds sold their limestone quarries, kilns and wharves to the Rockland and Rockport Lime Company in early 1900. Herbert L. Shepherd became an important part in creating the new company, along with Frank Crockett and W. T. Cobb. The store sold supplies to the company barges and did business with twenty schooners and two sloops.Creator
S. E. and H. L. ShepherdNotes
Date: Jan. 1910 - Sept. 1910
Container: Leather spine, 11" x 15" x .5", 30 pagesTitle
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Accounts related to the lime business. The store did business with seventeen schooners, some of them mentioned in the 1910 book, and two sloops. Includes account for insurance for the schooners, John Bird and Co., and G. F. Burgess. (In the early 1890s Burgess lived in Camden on a farm which included Jacobs quarry. In 1892 he sold the quarry to S. E. and H. L. Shepherd Co. and the farm to Mrs. William F. Hooper, who put together eigth properties to form "Hill Acres." By this time, Burgess had moved to a 20th century business - car and truck tires.)Creator
S. E. and H. L. ShepherdNotes
Date: Jan. 1913 - Sept. 1913
Container: Leather spine, 11" x 15" x .5", 30 pagesTitle
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Accounts related to the lime business. The store did business with thirteen schooners, four fewer than the year before, and one sloop, the "Mabel."
The store gave $13 to the Reublican campaign in the fall.Creator
S. E. and H. L. ShepherdNotes
Date: Jan. 1914 - Dec. 1914
Container: Leather spine, 11" x 15" x .5", 30 pagesTitle
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Accounts related to the lime business. The store did business with thirteen schooners and one sloop.Creator
S. E. and H. L. ShepherdNotes
Date: Undated - likey 1890s
Container: Brown leather, marked "L" on cover, 8" x 15" x .4", 30Title
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The towns of Rockport and Camden are listed, putting the book after the date they were set up. Cobb Lime is listed and that went into the Rockland and Rockport Lime Company in January, 1900. Carleton, Norwood is listed and the lime company bought that in 1901. It is interesting that there are no summer people or the Megunticook Golf Club listed. The golf club began in 1902. Other companies listed include a Penobscot Shore Line Railroad and a Steam Mill. This book lists 28 schooners, corroborating a pre-1900 date.Creator
S. E. and H. L. ShepherdNotes
Date: Undated - likey late 1890s
Container: Brown leather, marked "K" on cover, 8" x 15" x .4", 30Title
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Listing of accounts from the store and other properties owned by the Shepherds. Includes four schooners, with their investment and dividends over a three year period: "Antelope," "Ella May," "H. F. Kimball," and "Chester R. Lawrence." "Kimball" was a limer taking casks of lime south to New York and returning with coal which the Shepherds sold to Staples Coal Co.Creator
S. E. and H. L. ShepherdDate(s) of Creation
1896 - 1899Notes
Container: Leather ledger, gold trim, 15" x 13" x 5", 1200 pagesTitle
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Listing of accounts from the store and other properties owned by the Shepherds. Includes prices on everyday purchases. Note the schooners on p. 596. Carleton and Company seemed to have the only telephone in town (p. 377).Creator
S. E. and H. L. ShepherdNotes
Date: Oct. 1888 - June 1889
Container: Leather ledger maked "J", 12" x 16" x 2.75", 596 ppTitle
"General Ledger"Description
Ledger contains accounts for all the Shepherd businesses: investments, schooners, rental houses, farms, blacksmith shop, Rockport Ice Company, as well as their store.
The store was the place where people paid for their telephone, electric light, express and telegrams. The merchandise account shows the cost of stocking the store to range from $3,000/ mo. to more than $5,000/ mo. in the summer.
In 1907, they owned a portion of the schooners, "H. F. Kimball," "C. R. Lawrence," and "Ella May." The "Kimball lasted through the end of this ledger, 1914. It was captained by B. A. Barbour to 1910, and then by Captain Sewall. The schooner owners seemed to let the captains rent the vessels as the paid $55/ mo., labeled "rent."
Rental houses seemed to have been rented to Rockport people who were brought in to work the quarries and the kilns. There was the Shepherd block in the center of town which was partially rented out for $214/ mo. along with a sail loft.Creator
S. E. and H. L. ShepherdDate(s) of Creation
1907 - 1915Notes
Container: Leather ledger maked "5", 11.5" x 16" x 4.5", 1200 ppTitle
"General Ledger"Description
Similar to other ledgers. Marks changeover to Rockland and Rockport Lime Co. Note presence of C. W. Henry's yacht in 1902.Creator
S. E. and H. L. ShepherdNotes
Date: July, 1899 - Dec. 1902
Container: Leather ledger maked "3", 12.5" x 16" x 4"Title
"Cash Book"Description
One of seven journals. Cash received and paid under headings of merchandise, cask, wood. No balances to help understand transactions, just daily entries.Creator
S. E. and H. L. ShepherdNotes
Date: July, 1899 - May 1901
Location: Walsh History Center: Storage
Container: Leather ledger, marked "40294", 12.5" x 18.25" x 2"Title
"Journal"Description
One of seven journals. Cash received and paid under headings of H. L. Shepherd, Oliver P. Shepherd, Joseph F. Shepherd, and Enos Ingraham. No balances to help understand transactions, just daily entries.Creator
S. E. and H. L. ShepherdNotes
Date: Feb. 1907 - April 1909
Location: Walsh History Center: Storage
Container: Leather ledger, marked "92689", 12.5" x 18.25" x 2"Title
"Journal"Description
One of seven journals. Cash received and paid. No balances to help understand transactions, just daily entries.Creator
S. E. and H. L. ShepherdNotes
Date: Jan. 1899 - April 1899
Container: Leather ledger, marked "085-J", 12.5" x 18.25" x 2"Title
"Journal"Description
One of seven journals. Cash received and paid. No balances to help understand transactions, just daily entries.Creator
S. E. and H. L. ShepherdNotes
Date: July 1899 - May 1900
Container: Leather ledger, marked "40294", 12.5" x 18.25" x 2"Title
"Journal"Description
One of seven journals. Cash received and paid. No balances to help understand transactions, just daily entries.Creator
S. E. and H. L. ShepherdNotes
Date: Sept. 1916 - Dec. 1920
Location: Walsh History Center: Storage
Container: Leather, marked "221687" & "12", 12.5" x 18.25" x 2"Title
"Journal"Description
First pages are alphabetized with listing of names of accounts, both people and companies. Remainder of pages show individual accounts.Creator
S. E. and H. L. ShepherdDate(s) of Creation
1914 - 1926Notes
Location: Walsh History Center: Storage
Container: Canvas, marked "195445" & "12", 16.5" x 18.25" x 3.5"Title
"Rent Book #4"Description
Contains all company properties and rentals.Creator
S. E. and H. L. ShepherdDate(s) of Creation
1916 - 1920Title
"Insurance Register"Description
Names of insurance companies and properties covered by each policy. Considerable overlap with the "Rent Book #4."Creator
S. E. and H. L. ShepherdDate(s) of Creation
1909 - 1920